A Palestinian State … If
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Sheldon Richman
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinians can have their own country … if, if, if, and if. See details here.
Reminds me of the story philosopher Norman Malcolm told about Wittgenstein:
When in very good spirits he would jest in a delightful manner. This took the form of deliberately absurd or extravagant remarks uttered in a tone, and with the mien, of affected seriousness. On one walk he “gave” me each tree that we passed, with the reservation that I was not to cut it down or do anything to it, or prevent the previous owners from doing anything to it: with those reservations they were henceforth mine.
Cross-posted at Free Association.
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Mideast policy is about the only area where I agree with the thrust of the Obama administration. The Zionists want to bomb Iran, and don’t want to relent to the Palestinians their long-promised state. The Obama administration doesn’t really want to bomb Iran, and does want the Palestinians to have their state.
It’s amazing that a president that has decent judgment on Mideast policy is so clueless on American domestic and economic policy, but that’s really the hobgoblin that has bedeviled the U.S. for years now: The GOP is better at domestic policy, terrible at foreign policy; the Dems are better at foreign policy, but terrible at domestic policy.
Neither party, on balance, is good at American policy all around, and the damage done by each parties’ weaknesses wind up vastly outweighing the good accomplished by their strengths.
“The GOP is better at domestic policy,….”
Really? Where? When? Lip service doesn’t count.
“the Dems are better at foreign policy…”
Hardly. See Af-Pak. There is some glimmer re Israel-Palestine, but it is within the interventionist context. “We” need to withdraw, not manage better.
Obama’s foreign policy towards Israel / Palestine is perhaps a tad better, but I still can’t figure out why we need to be involved at all.
I meant the GOP is better on domestic policy only relative to the Dems. For example, bailout of the Plutocrats and the co-opting of private industry by the State. Bush was bad, Obama is worse.
But yes, the more important point is that both have set America on a blatantly foolish trajectory, so the GOP is only “better” in that right-wing statism is a slower boat to internationalist centralization than left-wing statism.
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I’m an American. I am not an Israeli or Palestinian. Why should I care? Read the Founding Fathers. This really has no effect on my life or my family. Why should any American care?
because billions of your tax dollars are going there ?
Which begs the question- Why are billions going there? For as long as I can remember, we’ve sent them billions EVERY year. For that much cash we could have bought all the Palestinians and set them up in Florida. The empire is no longer bringing in loot and we know what happened to previous empires when that turning point came about.